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Phentex

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14. a lot of drills, too, and it gets confusing...

Reply to LiberalEsto (Reply #11)

Mon Sep 16, 2013, 11:01 AM

Sep 2013

the last one they did at the high school, they failed. They heard some kind of signal and everyone marched outside, orderly and fast.

"Why did it fail?" I asked my son.

He replied, "Because it was a tornado drill and we all went outside!"

Lock down, tornado, fire, yada yada yada

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